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This is great. It is very cool to see this link in the "way" back in 2007: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 .

I think number 10 is 1/4 of the can is full of soda, so 3 ozs of soda. There's a link here with the problem http://people.missouristate.edu/lesreid/Adv71.html .

it's quite good within the city limits, but it drops off very quickly when the suburbs are included. These numbers included the suburbs.

Good point - I found this a confusing analysis without digging much into what it was saying - Urbana and Athens were high on the list...why? Do they have public bus systems that st…

#2 is called this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffon%27s_needle . This is also mentioned in Jordan Ellenberg's book How Not to Be Wrong, and has a similar passage with your expla…

Yeah - It seems strange that the early parts of the article try to paint him as one who has failed but still overcome adversity. It is challenging to argue that at any point he was…

San Juan, while a slightly different dynamic, is also a fun Puerto Rico-like game that works well with two players.